So you're one of those smug stemlords who thinks the entire world runs according to immutable axioms and hates the idea of any sort of uncertainty, and can't deal with cultural and religious restrictions other people hold only themselves to as a matter of personal honor?

And yeah, no shit. As we've established, I do not hate technology itself. I hate the ruin that careless pursuit of progress brings. You want to tear down the highways? Be my guest, I'll bring the charges. You want to open the old rails? That's a perfectly wise thing to do. But if you want to create new ones, what forests and villages do you plan to bowl over for them? Where do you want to get the metals and ores and fuel? What do you plan to do with the cores when they're expended? How long do you think that can be sustained and will it cause more problems than it solves?

You specifically stated nuclear power, presumably fission. While I doubt you'd be fool enough to leave it unshielded, we haven't miniaturized fusion successfully to my knowledge and cores do inevitably burn out. Electrical generation is its own set of problems whether nuclear or fuel, to say nothing of the sheer scale of power plants on an architectural level. That's a fucking lot of steel and concrete you're investing.

Deserts have their own peoples and ecosystems, you're only foisting our problems onto others by building all our shit out there. How does this impact the remaining nomads, or the people that return to nomadic life after they're no longer chained to the factories and roads? Does this interfere with the precious little moisture brought in by the rains and winds if it lands on the solar panels and evaporates or gets trapped instead of touching ground? How does this impact floral and animal life, especially given the scarcity of food and drink in such a place, with less space to hunt and to grow and to burrow?

Space junk is already becoming a major concern and it's only been about 60 years or so since we've regularly started putting things up there. How are you going to launch cores into escape velocity and how much fuel and expense will this be?

Deserts have their own peoples and ecosystems, you're only foisting our problems onto others by building all our shit out there. How does this impact the remaining nomads, or the people that return to nomadic life after they're no longer chained to the factories and roads? Does this interfere with the precious little moisture brought in by the rains and winds if it lands on the solar panels and evaporates or gets trapped instead of touching ground? How does this impact floral and animal life, especially given the scarcity of food and drink in such a place, with less space to hunt and to grow and to burrow?

I'm talking about parts with little impact on life; some sq.m outside of vegas is a preferable option to dumping it in Africa.

Space junk is already becoming a major concern and it's only been about 60 years or so since we've regularly started putting things up there. How are you going to launch cores into escape velocity and how much fuel and expense will this be?